🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah

Travel

An archive of prayers for the wellbeing of travelers, or perhaps more broadly, on the theme of travel by different means between coordinates, states of awareness, and states of existence.

Resources filtered by TAG: “English vernacular prayer” (clear filter)

Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first?

Prayer During a Storm at Sea, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer for when traveling conditions become perilous on an ocean voyage.

Categories:

Travel

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, ocean, prayers on ships, תחינות teḥinot, travel by water

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A Wife’s Prayer whose Husband is on a Journey, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling.

Categories:

Travel, Marriage

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The Voice of the Lord, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (before 1883)

A poem, inspired by psalms, about a dangerous ocean storm or else the violent nature calmed during one of the nights and days of creation.

Categories:

Dangerous Storms & Floods, Travel

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English Romanticism, English vernacular prayer, ocean, Prayers as poems, travel by water

Contributor(s):

Rosa Emma Salaman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Lord, Do Thou Guide Me — a prayer-poem for Shabbat parashat b’Shalaḥ by Alice Montefiore Lucas (1898)

“Lord, do Thou guide me” by Alice Montefiore Lucas was written for “Sabbath—ⅩⅥ,” (i.e., Shabbat parashat b’Shalaḥ) and first published in her collection of prayers, The Jewish Year (1898), p. 34.

Categories:

Shirat ha-Yam, Travel, Parashat b'Shalaḥ, 7th Day of Pesaḥ

Tags:

19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, פרשת בשלח parashat B'shalaḥ, traveler

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alice Montefiore Lucas

A Prayer, by Rabbi J. Leonard Levy (1902)

“A Prayer” by Rabbi J. Leonard Levy was first published in The Children’s Service for Use in Religious Schools (1902). In the second edition from 1904, it is found on page 209.

Categories:

Labor, Fulfillment, and Parnasah, Travel

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and J. Leonard Levy

For Those At Home, a prayer for the home front during war by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman adapted by Rabbi Morris Lazaron (1918)

“[Prayer] for those at home,” a variation of a prayer by Rev. Howard A. Bridgman (1860-1929), is found adapted (without Christian god-language) by Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron in his World War Ⅰ era prayerbook, Side Arms: Readings, Prayers and Meditations for Soldiers and Sailors (1918), on page 25. The original version of the prayer was first published in The Service Song Book (Young Men’s Christian Associations 1917), pp. 86 in the abridged edition.

Categories:

Travel, War

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ecumenical prayers, English vernacular prayer, military, מוסר mussar, prayers of military chaplains, United States home front during World War Ⅰ, World War Ⅰ

Contributor(s):

Morris Samuel Lazaron, Howard Allen Bridgman and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer on behalf of a sibling starting off on a journey, by Rabbi Abraham Burstein (1927)

A prayer for a sibling embarking on a journey to another land or lands.

Categories:

Travel

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, prayers for siblings

Contributor(s):

Abraham Burstein and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

On Taking a Journey (CCAR 1951)

“On Taking a Journey” is the first prayer in the “Personal Prayers for Special Occasions” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 41.

Categories:

Travel

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, protection, תחינות teḥinot, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

Prayer After Passing Through Danger (CCAR 1951)

“Prayer After Passing Through Danger” is the second prayer in the “Personal Prayers for Special Occasions” section of the Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951), p. 42.

Categories:

Travel

Tags:

20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., ברכת הגומל birkat hagomel, English vernacular prayer, Gratitude, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown and Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR]

A Prayer for Travel, by Rabbi Menachem Creditor

A traveler’s prayer in English, adapted from the traditional formula vt Rabbi Menachem Creditor.

Categories:

Travel

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, journey, traveler

Contributor(s):

Menachem Creditor

A Blessing for Students Going to Israel to Study, by Rabbi Victor Reinstein (2016)

A prayer for students studying-abroad in Israel.

Categories:

Learning, Study, and School, Travel

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, ישראל Yisrael

Contributor(s):

Victor Reinstein

A Man of Value, by Debra Cash

This version of Eyshet Ḥayil replaces valor with value, and while it speaks of man in terms of family, community, and the natural world, it is not heteronormative.

Categories:

Travel, Seudat Leil Shabbat

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, אשת חיל eshet ḥayil, men, role models

Contributor(s):

Debra Cash

O Mother of Medicine, a kavvanah before a healing journey by Baruch Jean Thaler

“O Mother of Medicine” is an original prayer of intention by Baruch Jean Thaler, for use before a healing journey with the aid of entheogenic, psychedelic medicine.

Categories:

Travel, Well-being, health, and caregiving

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, entheogenic and psychedelic use, כוונות kavvanot, wards against spiritual narcissism

Contributor(s):

Baruch Jean Thaler

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/index.php?cat=799

Associated Image:

"Youth on bike parade in one village celebrations Sde Warburg, 1984." (credit: Hans Lehmann, license CC BY)

(This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)

Terms of Use: Be a mentsch (a conscientious, considerate person) and adhere to the following guidelines:

Properly attribute any information in the description of this archive page to the Open Siddur Project (<https://opensiddur.org>).
Clearly indicate the date you accessed this page and in what ways, if any, you modified it. (If you have adapted the work, let us know so that the contributor might consider endorsing your revision.)
Provide the stable link to this archive: <https://opensiddur.org/index.php?cat=799>.
Indicate that the original page was shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license. (To redistribute or remix this page in any format, modified or unmodified, you must refer to the terms of the CC BY-SA license.)

Additional Notes:

The views expressed on this page and in these shared works represents the views of their creator(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Open Siddur Project's developers, its diverse community of volunteer contributors, or its institutional partners.
We strongly advise against printing sacred texts and art containing divine names as these copies must be regarded with reverence, complicating their casual treatment and disposal.
If you must dispose of a printed sacred text (one containing Divine Names), please locate the closest genizah (often established by a synagogue) and contact its custodians for further instructions. We also recommend using Morah Yehudis Fishman's Prayer for Adding a Work to the Genizah.

Support this work: The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.

ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו׃ (תהלים צ:יז) · "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." (Psalms 90:17)

Reddit Facebook Mastodon Bluesky Telegram WhatsApp SMS Email